Hae-joon seems like an ordinary middle-class, middle-aged family man. But his dreams are telling him a different story about himself. He has visions of his mother, a shaman, and is haunted by sounds of drums and chanting. Meanwhile his daughter lies bed-ridden with some mysterious ailment, preyed over zealously, if to little purpose, by his wife and her Christian cronies. He takes himself on a journey South, following scattered traces of his fire-obsessed mother, eventually to the festive scene of public shaman ceremonies on Jindo Island.

Jung Il-sung had shot both Kim Ki-young’s film Iodo and Eul-hwa, two very different treatments of Korean shamans, in 1979 and was interested in exploring the topic further with Im Kwon-taek. Im, for all his success in finding vivid ways of putting Buddhism on screen, has maintained that it is shamanism which lies at the roots of Korean religious culture.

Bului.dal.1983.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-thr.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 53 min
Size: 	913 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x768 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.940 fps
Bit rate: 	1 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.053
Audio
#1:  	Korean 2.0ch AAC LC @ 128 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/0B7BE17D2A1635A/Bului.dal.1983.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-thr.mkv

Language(s):Korean
Subtitles:English

The post Kwon-taek Im – Bului dal AKA Daughter of Fire (1983) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Two old adversaries meet by chance in a rehab center and realize that the conflict which has dominated their lives since the Korean War has run out of road. Both men are in ruins. One is a former cop, the other a former communist guerrilla; the flashbacks to their sad backstories show Im’s skill in anchoring the currents of modern Korean history in wrenching emotional drama.

Jagko.AKA.Pursuit.of.Death.1980.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 43 min
Size: 	1.96 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x366 
Aspect ratio:  	2.798
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 498 kb/s
BPP: 	0.278
Audio
#1:  	Korean 1.0ch AAC LC @ 125 kb/s
#2:  	Korean 2.0ch AAC LC @ 88.2 kb/s (Commentary by filmmaker Kim Dae-seung and Cine21 editor Ju Sung-chul)

https://nitro.download/view/8A67760AC6B963E/Jagko.AKA.Pursuit.of.Death.1980.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Korean with Korean commentary
Subtitles:English (main feature and commentary)

The post Kwon-taek Im – Jagko AKA Pursuit of Death (1980) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Six years after leaving the secular life to become a Buddhist monk, Beob-wun is still haunted by memories Young-ju, his ex-lover. He tries to find the path to the truth and meets Ji-san another monk who doesn’t even have his holy orders. Their association leads to greater pain and conflicts for Beob-wun. Ji-san dies in the snow, as partly a man resembling Buddha and a man drowning in the ways of the secular world. Beob-wun cremates Ji-san’s corpse and seeks out Young-ju and his mom. He also meets Ok-sun, a woman Ji-san could not forget. These encounters reinforce his belief that the ways of the world are meaningless and continues on his path to find the truth.

1.72GB | 1h 52m | 855×380 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7F62A9A7F1228ED/Mandala.1981.DVDRip.x264-SMz.mkv

Language(s):Korean (both main feature and commentary)
Subtitles:English (both main feature and commentary)

The post Kwon-taek Im – Mandala AKA A Buddhist Ascetic Mandara (1981) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
This heart-rending and accessible melodrama concerns the relationship between two children and their adoptive ‘father’/master, a travelling – necessarily poor – pansori musician. The pansori, a traditional music of aching love laments or upbeat festive songs, performed to the accompaniment of a lone drum, gives the movie its elegiac tone. Flashing back to the early ’50s, it follows the three on their journeys through the loving photographed by Korean landscapes, in all seasons, as they fight for a living, while their music is literally drowned out by the emerging fashion for Western sounds. It’s a film of looks, rhythms, intimations and feelings, expressed in pure cinematic terms, and it’s almost impossible not to be moved by it. The sopyonje is a song described as sorrowful and tender – there are few films more tender, if not more sorrowful than this. Unmissable. — TimeOut.

2.87GB | 1 h 53 min | 1024×556 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/D7A58B4CB147901/Seopyeonje.1993.576p.mkv

Language:Korean+commentary
Subtitles:English

The post Kwon-taek Im – Seopyeonje (1993) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In 19th-century Korea nobleman Kim Byung-moon saves a young beggar from a savage beating, and in return the beggar, Jang Seung-ub, draws him a picture. Kim is astonished by his rough yet extraordinary talent and arranges for him to study at the house of an eminent Chinese teacher. Here, the young painter falls in love with Mae-hyang, the daughter of a fallen aristocratic family, but the young lovers are unable to overcome the class difference that divides them. This sets Seung-ub on the path he follows for much of his life: that of a drunken wanderer. Despite his self-destructive behaviour, his penchant for consorting with prostitutes, his impoverished background, and the political turbulence of the times in which he lives, Seung-ub’s fame spreads and he becomes known by the name Ohwon. He is courted by wealthy and powerful patrons including the king, all of whom he ends up rejecting. Ultimately, Ohwon departs once again – drunken, obsessed, and alone – as the shadow of Japanese colonialism looms over Korea…

1.88GB | 1 h 59 min | 853×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8B27E757C66FE4F/Chihwaseon.AKA.Strokes.of.Fire.2002.DVDRip.CorrSubs.x264.mkv

Language:Korean
Subtitles:English (srt,default); Portuguese (srt)

The post Kwon-taek Im – Chihwaseon AKA Strokes of Fire (2002) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Summary:
Mongryong marries the beautiful Chunhyang without telling his father, the Governor of Namwon. When his father is transferred to Seoul, Mongryong has to leave Chunhyang and finish his exams. Chunhyang, being the daughter of a courtesan, is also legally a courtesan. She is beaten and imprisoned when she refuses to obey the new Governor Byun, as she wishes to be faithful to her husband. After three years, Mongryong passes his exam and becomes an emissary to the King. He returns to Namwon, disguised as a beggar, just before Chunhyang is to be flogged to death at the governor’s birthday celebration.

1.77GB | 2h 16mn | 862×466 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/C8918712B72601F/Chunhyang_-_2000.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/BBE259D96F6BC04/Chunhyang_-_2000.part2.rar

Language:Korean
Subtitles: English Japanese Chinese Korean

The post Kwon-taek Im – Chunhyangdyun (2000) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Adopted by a nomadic pansori singer, Dong Ho (Cho Jae Hyun) and Song Hwa (Oh Jung Hae) grow up as brother and sister, bounded by a deep unspoken affection. Their father trains them strictly, and Song Hwa’s love and talent for pansori becomes both her blessing and her burden. Young and brash, Dong Ho tries to keep pace as a traditional drum player, but eventually leaves the family in search of a better life. Though in the ensuing years he encounters news places and new people, he can never forget his love for Song Hwa. Together and apart, reunion and separation, the two keep moving in different directions while restlessly chasing each other’s shadows. Dong Ho spends a lifetime trying to find a place he belongs, a way to Song Hwa’s heart.

1.91GB | 1 h 49 min | 832×468 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/A7503D0A8AD2902/Beyond.the.Years.2007.DVDRip.DD5.1.x264-KiMCHi.mkv

Language:Korean
Subtitles:English, Korean (muxed)

The post Kwon-taek Im – Chun nyun hack AKA Across The Years AKA Beyond the Years (2007) first appeared on Cinema of the World.